Looking for something to hang on your fridge or bulletin
board that will catch the mind as well as the eye? These quotes should
be just the ticket. We've collected dozens of quotations, grouped them
by topic, and created colorful, printable, 8.5" x 11" Adobe
Acrobat files that are ready to use. All you do is print 'em out and hang
'em up. Three sets are complete:
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Quotation |
Horizon Lines - Thoughts
on Greatness and Achievement |
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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
"To measure the man, measure his
heart." |
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Sir Winston Churchill |
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm." |
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Herodotus |
"Great deeds are usually wrought
at great risks." |
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George Chapman |
"They're only truly great who
are truly good." |
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William Shakespeare |
"Be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them." |
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Mother Theresa |
"There are no great things, only
small things with great love. Happy are those." |
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C. G. Jung |
"We cannot change anything until
we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
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André Gide |
"Welcome anything that comes to
you, but do not long for anything else." |
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Abraham Lincoln |
"Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." |
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Adlai Stevenson |
"She would rather light candles
than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world." |
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Albert Camus |
"In the depths of winter I finally
learned there was in me an invincible summer." |
Goal Lines - Inspiration from
Sports |
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Thomas Jefferson |
"I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." |
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Michael Jordan |
"You have to expect things of
yourself before you can do them." |
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John Wooden |
"Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do." |
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Joe Paterno |
"The will to win is important,
but the will to prepare is vital." |
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Satchel Paige |
"Don't look back. Something might
be gaining on you." |
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Ray Knight |
"Concentration is the ability
to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
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William A. Ward |
"Adversity causes some men to
break; others to break records." |
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General George Patton |
"Success is how high you bounce
when you hit bottom." |
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George Shultz |
"The minute you start talking
about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." |
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John Keats |
"There is no fiercer hell than
the failure in a great object." |
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Herschel Walker |
"If you train hard, you'll not
only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." |
Writer's
Blocks - Writing and Poetry |
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Rollo May |
"Creativity is a yearning for
immortality." |
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E. B. White |
"Be obscure clearly." |
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Bernard Malamud |
"The idea is to get the pencil
moving quickly" |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer |
"The wastepaper basket is the
writer's best friend." |
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Philip Roth |
"Satire is moral outrage transformed
into comic art." |
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John McPhee |
"Writing is a suspension of life
in order to re-create life." |
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John Steinbeck |
"A writer who does not passionately
believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership
in literature." |
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Clifton Fadiman |
"When you reread a classic you
do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you
than there was before." |
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S.I. Hayakawa |
"It is not true that we have only
one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and
as many kinds as we wish." |
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John F. Kennedy |
"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
"A poet's autobiography is his
poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote." |
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Stanley Kunitz |
"Poetry is language surprised
in the act of changing into meaning." |
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